Chapter 10:

Couple Days Later:

Normal POV:

Mel walked into her parents hotel room with Matt because they were having a 'family' meeting. Shutting the door the couple turned to their family and friends. "Well?" Mel asked.

"You guys we've decided to stay for the rest of summer." Liz said softly.

"But-" Mel started.

"We'll head out of town stay gone for two days and come back as ourselves." Max said cutting off a sentence he knew was going to come from her mouth.

Mel smiled and the blue eyes that weren't hers naturally gleam. "Seriously?" She asked happily.

The adults nodded. "Max and I have been keep tabs on things and have come to the conclusion that it's safe." Michael said.

Mel looked to Matt and they both smiled at each other and then looked back at their family. "Actually there's something I've been meaning to talk to you guys about." Mel said changing subject matter a little.

"What's that?" Isabelle said.

Mel bit her lip. "I…well you see…"

"She wants to do a little experiment on Zan." Matt said for her. The adults looked at them funny. "Uh no not like that. She keeps…"

"I get these funny vibes from him like you know maybe the council was wrong about him." She said hoping her father would catch on and he nodded to her so that she'd continue. "I want to look at his cells under a microscope." She admitted.

Maria started to giggled. "Oh yes cause I can picture him just handing over a cheek swab." She said jokingly.

Mel looked at them. "Come on what can it hurt. I'll tell him I like science and that you've all been victims as well." She said.

Max stood and walked over to her. "What makes you think he's like us?" He asked calmly.

Mel shrugged. "I dunno dad. Sometimes I feel like he's just staring waiting for me to crack and tell him the truth. And that would entail him knowing something about the truth wouldn't it?"

Max sighed and looked back to Liz. She smiled and nodded and his attentions were back on his daughter. "We've sort of been wondering about him for a while to. I mean you guys were perfectly normal until you turned five, maybe…"

"That could be what happened to him to?" Mel asked softly. She looked at Matt with a triumphant smirk. "Ha told ya it was a possibility." She grinned playfully.

"I never said it wasn't." Matt retorted crossing his eyes and making a funny face her for a second before they both got serious again. "I said that…oh forget it you win!"

"Wait…hold the presses did you just concede…to me?" Melinda screeched in shock and what seemed like delight to everyone.

Matt groaned. "I'm never going to live this down am I?"

"Anybody have a calendar? I need to mark this down as the very first day since we were five that…"

"Melinda?" Matt asked.

Mel smiled. "Yeah?"

"Shut up!" He said smirking at her.

Mel's mouth dropped and then closed. "If you were any body else I'd clock you for that. But since you're you…"

"Ok back to the matter at hand." Maria exclaimed breaking them out of whatever funny flirting it was they were doing. Her and Michael would fight and make-up and fight and make-up it was just the way things were. Mel and Matt didn't seem to far from that.

"She's right." Max said. "So I'm giving you permission to do your little experiment, but after we get back from our two day stay away. Ok?" Mel nodded.

"Ok."

Mel POV:

Here we sit in my car listening to music as we drive out of Roswell. We told the other's we would be back in a few days that we had some stuff to attend to. And we did. Getting our own identities back for the public. I swear if I here another guy whistle at me cause I'm blonde and blue eyed I'm going to go ballistic! Mel thought silently. "Ok Lindy name this song." Matt said turning the volume up on her stereo.

"Hellogoodbye – Here in your arms. Come on Matty you have to try harder then that to stump me." Mel grinned with a quick look in his direction and then back to the road where they followed behind the two vans once again.

Matt groaned. "Come on there has to be a song you don't know."

"I'm telling you Matty I know almost every song from that particular time in music history." Mel said brightly.

"Ok, ok how about this I'll give you a song and you give me the band or artist?" Matt suggested. It's cute how he's trying to pass time till our stop in another town. We'll stay for a night and head back and that will be our two days gone from Roswell.

Mel nodded. "Ok junior space boy you're on." I don't know why I called him that, but it fits he definitely is Michaels son. Stubborn like both of his parents cause he can't seem to except what I know about old music at face value. You can't stump me.

"Ok, love like winter."

"AFI."

"Girlfriend."

"Avril Lavigne and when did you start listening to her?"

"Never mind that. Run it?"

"Chris Brown."

"Had enough."

"Breaking Benjamin."

"I wanna love you."

"Akon. I'm telling you babe you aren't going to stump me."

"Like that?"

"Mariah Carey."

"American idiot."

"Green day."

Matt groaned. "Fine you win you can not be stumped. You going to mark this day as the next of my conceding to you?" He asked jokingly.

Mel giggled. "No. I'm sorry, it's just sort of like this…I don't know how to explain it." She said softly. I'm a human music organizer.

Matt sighed contently looking out the open car window gazing out on the not so sandy area. "Just another thing to love about you."

"So when are we going to talk about it?"

"What?"

"Your powers?"

"Oh right. I um I dunno whenever you want."

Mel smiled. "Well we're alone now, so I guess this would be as good a time as any to talk."

Matt POV:

Should I tell her that for a long time I felt in adequate to her because I couldn't control my powers? Neh stick to basics. "I just need help controlling my powers."

"Nah you just need to learn to focus your energy. You're powers react to your emotions. When you're angry things tend to shatter or shake, but if your calm and ok every thing is fine. We just need to focus your rage at something."

"Oh please help master." He joked.

"Master?" Mel asked grinning. "I like that. Master." Of course she would. He mused to himself sardonically. "So what should I make you do first servant boy?"

"Well I can imagine a few things, but I don't think I'm that lucky." He grinned.

Mel giggled. "Bad Matty." She teased. "When we get to wherever we're going we'll start ok?"

"Whatever you say."

"I like it when you comply."

Matt grinned. "I get more when I comply then if I was to just argue incessantly."

"Well then maybe I should stop making it so damn easy for you." Obviously she doesn't know what she does to me.

Matt smirked mostly to himself as he looked over at his brunette bombshell. "Your anger just makes me love you more." He grinned.

"Of course it does." Mel replied in sarcasm. "Why wouldn't it? I mean I smack you upside the head, yell at you, call you deadbeat, oh yeah I can see where that really makes you love me more." She said in total sarcasm.

Matt chuckled. "I'm serious. Your anger is a part of who you are sometimes and I love you, so I love your anger. We've moved passed all that other stuff anyways."

Mel looked over at him and then back at the road. "Yeah." She said quietly.

Matt reached over and his fingers caressed her cheek ever so lightly and then a soft smile broke on to her face as she looked at him from the corner of her brown eyes. "I love you Lindy. Always will." He said thoughtfully in a low voice.

Mel still smiled softly and her face leaned into his open palm as she again looked ahead to watch where she was going. "I love you too Matty."

Next Day:

Mel POV:

Their two-day trip was almost over, they had driven for a day and stayed at a hotel and they would be living that night. "Ok focus find something that angers you and channel it looking at the bottle." Mel instructed and then the bottle shattered making her turn away covering her face as little pieces fell around her. One had such force that it stuck in her arm. "Shit!" She mumbled pulling shared out.

Matt looked over at her from where he had been standing and saw blood on her arm. "Oh crap are you ok?" He asked rushing over. Mel was quick to assure him.

"Yes Matty I'm fine." She left the room and knocked on the next one down. The door opened. "Hey mom, dad here?" Liz nodded and let her in. She saw her daughters arm and gasped.

"Honey what happened?" She asked looking it over. Whatever had happened even though the cut was small it was deep and bleeding a little more then Liz would've liked.

Mel winced when Liz pressed the flesh around it. "Nothing, we were working on his powers…"

"Matt's?" Liz asked.

Mel nodded. "And I made the stupid mistake of letting him blow up a glass bottle. I can't really see the cut enough to heal it so I need…"

"Mel?" Max came out of the bathroom fully clothed toweling off his head and then throwing the towel to the bathroom floor.

"Dad can you heal this?" She asked turning the back of her arm towards him.

Max got wide eyed. "What happened?"

"Mom can explain but this hurts will you please…" She gestured to healing it and he did so. "Much better thank you." She said softly. "I better get back to Matt before he thinks he really hurt me."

Mel walked out of the room and back into the one she was sharing with Matt. "Are you ok?" Matt asked again walking over to her looking worried.

Mel gave a bright smile. "I'm fine Matty I promise. I just couldn't see to heal it myself."

Matt sighed. "Are you sure?" He asked taking her arm and inspecting for himself. I love that he cares so much, but no more glass bottles.

Tugging her arm free gently Mel snaked her arms around his waist looking up at him. His arm's wrapped lightly linking his fingers around her petite frame. "I'm absolutely one hundred percent, know doubt about it ok. I promise times infinity. I'm over the moon super duper ok. Do you need more convincing?" She asked jokingly.

Matt grinned. "Not of the talking nature." He said mischievously. Mel giggled and her eyes lightly flickered shut as Matt's lips met hers in a tender kiss. In that moment there was a pounding on the room door. "Ugh…" Matt grumbled puling away and heading for the door.

Mel just giggled in amusement at his frustration and watched as he answered the door. "Dad." He said casually as not to show his frustration with the elder Guerin.

"Matt we leave in twenty, both of you need to be in the car by then engines running." Michael said sternly.

Matt chuckled. "Dad we've perfected this."

"I know, just reminding you. Nineteen minutes better get a move on." He said slightly kidding as he walked away. Matt shut the door and walked back over to his girlfriend.

"Want to go wait in the car?" He asked kissing her softly. Mel nodded. Her keys and black sunglass flew up from the night stand and she caught both in either hand. "You're really good at that." Matt commented.

Mel grinned. "Practice." She said handing him the keys to her car. "You drive please." She said sweetly. Matt nodded and grabbed their bags and they head out of the hotel room.

Back in Roswell:

One week Later:

Matt POV:

"You sure this is a good one?" Matt asked Mel who was her normal brunette self as they left the small store in town.

Mel nodded. "It should work fine Matty. Now kiss me so I can go and swab my brother's cheek." She giggled. Matt leaned down and gave her a quick kiss before releasing her as she scurried off to her dark blue and silver lancer. They had to change the color again. But Mel didn't mind she liked blue. I hope this goes ok. He thought walking to the crashdown for a cola.

Mel POV:

Knocking nervously on the door and waiting Mel stood there. Diane answered and smiled. After coming back the parents had been filled in that it was ok to walk around like themselves once again. "Melinda sweetie what brings you by?" Diane asked.

"Well…gr…Diane…" Mel fumbled. She still wasn't comfortable with the word just yet.

Diane must of seen her turmoil. "Oh sweetie it's ok. I understand take your time."

Mel nodded. "Is Zan here by chance?"

"Yeah he's out back with Phil. Let me go get him."

"Oh no let me. I'm doing this goofy little experiment and I want to see if he'll help out." She held up toothpicks in separate baggies. "Everyone's helping me out. I'm sort of a science geek." She kidded.

Diane smiled. "Well if you need anything from Phil and i…"

"Uh sure. Here." She hand her a toothpick and a fresh baggy. Diane knew this experiment obviously and swabbed the inside of her cheek and put it in a baggy. Mel clumsily wrote her name on it then added it to her collection. "Thanks."

She moved on towards the back door and found Phil and Zan kicking a soccer all around. "Hey guys!"

"Hey Mel! Join us!" They called.

"Can't I just came for some DNA!" She giggled holding up to separate toothpicks. Phil walked over holding the soccer ball.

"DNA?"

"Silly science nerd standing here wants to do a little experiment. Both your DNA would be really wonderful." She said smiling. Phil gladly obliged and once she held that bag she looked to Zan holding another toothpick and bag.

"I'm sick I'd hate for you to get it." He said like he was hiding something. Doubtful brother dear. The more you do the more I think you are part alien.

Mel smiled sweetly with her doe eyes and such. "Zan please this would mean a lot." Zan smiled at her and nodded. He took the toothpick and did the same as Diane and Phillip handing her the baggy. Mel marked his name down and then went on her way. "Thanks." She hollered over her shoulder to them.

Hotel room:

Mel nervously looked at Zan's cells under the scope. Oh my god! "Matty! Matty!" she hollered. Matt came running in from the bathroom.

"What? You ok? Everything ok?" He asked quickly thinking something had happened.

Mel grinned at him vigorously like she'd never stop. "Matt on the right are my cells on the left are Zan's, look?" She instructed gesturing to the eyepiece of the microscope. Matt looked and when he back away he looked at her stunned.

"This means…"

"The council was wrong, he's like us!" Mel said excitedly wrapping her arms around Matt's neck and hugging him tight. His chest was bare as he had just gotten out of the shower, but he wore boxers and baggy jeans. "I have to tell my father!" She said pulling away in a daze and quickly walking out of the hotel room.

Knocking on Liz and Max's door she waited. The door opened and she burst in shutting it. "You'll never guess!" She said excitedly to her parents that were now standing and staring at her. "Zan has cells like mine!"

"Being that he was a product of two half breeds, his alien powers must've been delayed like yours and Matt's." Liz said softly as she looked to Max.

Max nodded. "I wonder if he…"

"He claimed to be sick and didn't want to do it, but nobody can resist these eyes." Mel said triumphantly

Liz and Max laughed lightly with their daughter. "So how do we go about this Max?" Liz asked.

Max shrugged. "I don't know, but I guess we start by telling him the truth."

Mel smiled in excitement. "Yes!" She said brightly and headed back to her own room.